Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-23

Because the ToIIivers and Their Gang
Don't Breathe at AHA Sheriff-s Posse,
with the Help of the Deadly Winches-
ter, Slaughters the Outlaws After a
Fierce Battle of Two Hours
MoREHEAD, KY, June 23-About $50
o'clock Wednesday morning determined men
to the number of l60, all armed with Win
chester repeating rifles, came into Morehead
under charge OF Sheriff Hogge, to serve a
warrant on Craig Tolliver, charging him with
false swearing in issuing warrants for the ar
rest of the Logan boys, killed several weeks
ago. As one of the sheriff's posse was cross
ing the railroad near the water tank, about
fifty yards east of the Raines Cottage hotel
and before any attempt had been made to
serve the warrant, Craig Tolliver, who was
near the hotel, saw him, and fired at him
The man lodged behind pile of lumber,
and Tolliver and his two COUSINS, Bud and
Jay Tolliver, and Hiram Cooper went into
the hotel and barricaded the doors and win
dows.
Then the posse came up under cover of the
brush behind the hotel and immediately
opened fire upon the building. The house
was soon surrounded but at something of a
distance, none of the sheriff's men caring TO
get within range of the deadly guns the Tol
hvers knew so well how to use After firing
had been kept up for probably three quarters
of an hour the Tolliver men attempted to
leave the hotel aud cross the railroad to an
other hotel ON the opposite side While max
ing this foolhardy attempt the notorious leader
of the gang which has been such terror to
Rowan county fell to the ground pierced by
four balls from the Winchesters of the am
pushed posse, two of the bullets going through
his head and two through his breast.
The others got to the opposite house, and
fought the posse for some time, but finding
the place less secure than they expected they
made an attempt to recroSs the railroad to
their old position. In this they were unsnc-
ceSSful, for all three of them were ridded
with rife balls
After aScertaining that no more resistance
would be offered, the posse picked up the
dead men and placed them on the floor of the
porch of the Cottage hotel Investigation
showed that only one of the sheriffs posse was
wounded, and that was DR. Brown who re-
ceived an ugly flesh wound in the thigh The
fighting was kept up for two hours
During the firing the utmost CONSERVATION
prevailed among the women and children,
who ran from their houses and rushed to the
railway station, hoping thereby to escape the
bullets. The passenger train, which is due
here at O'clock, was delayed for two and a
half hours on account of the shooting. as the
fight began just as the engineer whistled for
Morehead The sheriff sent detail of men
to stop the train, but the engineer, hearing
the rapid firing, brought the train to a stand
still before reaching the outskirts of the town.
After the fight was over the engineer was per-
United to run his train into the station, when
it was Immediately boarded by number OF
the sheritf's men armed with their Winches-
tiers. Ladies screamed and a few tainted,
while many of the men had business outside.
The posse, however, carefully searched the
train for one of the Tolliver gang they
thought had escaped.
Catesby Tolliver, a boy and brother of
Craig, had a hole shot through the leg of his
trousers. The posse was composed of the best
men in Rowan county. They appeared to be
hard-working farmers, and were all sober,
earheS-Iooklng men. Everybody iii More
head seems glad the Tollivers are extermi.
mated and people will now breathe freer
LATER. -Catesby Tolliyer was captured just
as he had wounded Bud Mannln, one of the
posse, in the leg with pistol-bal from a big
pistol he was shooting He had also been
wounded slightly in the side
kilograms were sent to Lexington for four
cotfins and four suits of clothes in which to
bury the dead men
During the Tolliver- Martin feud, which has
extended over a period of more than three
years the following men have been killed:
Soloman Bradley, John Martin, Whit Pet
try, b. Candell, Sheriff Baumgarten, Marion
keaton, John DAVIS, C. Davis, Wiley Toll
yer, John Z. Logan, W. H. Logan and one
other, besides the four men killed Wednes
day